One of the cool new features of Alchemy 8.2.2, aka SP4, is the ability to copy search results to another database. This is very similar to one of the problems I ask my Alchemy SDK students to solve during a group exercise. The goal of the exercise is...

The Alchemy Application Accelerator (AAA) has been released to the Developer Program Portal. This service will speed up Alchemy development by streamlining several commonly used methods. It's posted in the Files -> Alchemy -> AAA folder; start with...

A few weeks ago we had our annual International Partner Conference in Kuala Lumpur. At that conference I delivered a session on using the Alchemy SDK in interesting ways. It was mostly a demo session with as few Powerpoint slides as possible. I was planning...

In <my last post/> I explained how you might add a search bar to your TaskList. I'm going to follow up with another sample that demonstrates how to build a search bar that selects tasks by date. To make selecting a date for my sample easy to do,...

Adding search capabilities to a task list should not be a difficult thing to do. To illustrate my point, I am going to describe how to build the following sample application using the new BQueryRuntime API. After creating a new website in Visual...

Until recently, building a customized task list involved having an intimate knowledge with our database schema. The BQueryRuntime API, new to Captaris Workflow 6.5, was designed to change all that by introducing a simple model that would allow you to...

Yesterday I finished up another Alchemy SDK class. One of the requests that came up was for a bulk loader utility. The customer had exported the data from some other file management tool as a series of files and an XML file describing it all...

One of the common questions I get from Captaris customers is how to get the overdue event to fire. The reason this question comes up is that some of our method names are downright confusing, and I think we changed something here because it doesn't look...

One of my students in a Dubai Alchemy SDK class asked about creating an extremely simple search client for Alchemy. Out of the box, Alchemy Search can be fairly easy to use, but there are still a lot of buttons that one could press. And if all you want...

Hello there, My name is Matt Williams and this is my first posting on this blog site. Many of you know me, but some of you don't, especially the US-based customers. I own training for all three products outside of the US. This means that I deliver training...

The document viewers that alchemy uses can be very useful when viewing a wide variety of documents and images. These viewers can be accessed through the API, and used in custom applications as well as in Captaris Workflow. This document will detail how...

This is a feature list of new items for Captaris Developers to broaden their programming experience with Captaris products.  This includes code snippets, SDKs, tools and utilities, and sample solutions that will accelerate integration development....

I realize a number of you are very familiar with the Captaris Corporate site, and the services, and information provided there, however, I assume that some of you may not be familiar with some of the specific links that are related to the Developer Portal. ...

If you are new to the Captaris Developer Portal, or a Member from our former bulletin board, the steps to register are quick and easy.  The benefit of registering with the site means that you will have access to the forums, the blogs, and the ability...

I have received a number of questions on this topic and thought it was time to go through the options available and the process.  First, in order for this to make sense, and help folks find their place in the process, we need to first discuss the...

For members that had accounts on the former bulletin board, you will need to create a new account and alias.  We elected not to migrate over the former accounts because they were created with your email.  In general this is not a good practice. ...

With the new site I wanted to take a moment and point out a couple of areas that will improve your user experience.  First, make sure to click on your name after you have signed in, and fill out your profile.  This will allow you to tailor...

    With the release date of MS Vista in late November for business users, I thought it would be good to experiment with RC2 and create a Sidebar Gadget that hooks into Captaris Workflow. Q:  What is a Vista Sidebar...

It has been a long road to get to this point.  As we launch the new site I thought it would be helpful for those members both old and new to do a bit of historical review.  For those members that started out on the RightFax bulletin board,...